RIBA reveals the best of British architecture for 2019
The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the 54 winners of its national awards, including the V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma, Heatherwick's Coal Drops Yard and Peter Zumthor's Secular Retreat.
Presented since 1966, the RIBA National Awards is an annual architecture prize that celebrates the best buildings built in the UK.
Winning projects range from public buildings in the Britain's major cities, like the V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma, through to small-scale private buildings in remote locations, like Peter Zumthor's Secular Retreat.
"Despite the political and economic challenges of recent years, our 2019 RIBA National Award winners show that UK architecture is highly adaptable, immensely talented and as community-focused as ever," said RIBA President Ben Derbyshire. Secular Retreat, Devon, England, by Mole Architects with Atelier Peter Zumthor. Photo is by Jack Hobhouse
This year, Derbyshire praised the number of winning projects that involved the revival of historic structures, including John Puttick Associates and Cassidy+Ashton's refurbishment of a listed 1960s bus station and Haworth Tompkins overhaul of Bristol Old Vic.
The new tower at Westminster Abbey by Ptolemy Dean Architects was also acknowledged, alongside Collective Architecture's transformation of a former observatory in Edinburgh into a contemporary art centre.
"I am particularly heartened that more than one third of our winners have creatively adapted existing buildings," said D...
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